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8. February 2018

US Secr. of State Colin Powell´s Chief of Staff´s Propaganda Effectively Sold 2. Iraq War to Americans. Now He Warns His Propaganda Technique is Being Used to Sell War on Iran

Although slowly, the political temperature is rising in the Middle east. Involved are The US which now declares not being willing to give up its illegal military presence in Syria although ISIS has been defeated. Furthermore Russia, invited by the legally elected Syrian president, which the US imagines to have the right to oust – all the while speaking of bringing democracy!!

This week, writing for the New York Times — an outlet that, at the time, parroted misleading narratives in support of the war — Wilkerson accused the Trump administration of manipulating evidence and fear-mongering in the same way the Bush administration did to cultivate public support for ousting Saddam Hussein.

The former chief of staff to Powell further criticized the Trump administration, citing its National Security Strategy, which claims:“The longer we ignore threats from countries determined to proliferate and develop weapons of mass destruction, the worse such threats become, and the fewer defensive options we have”.

“Though Ms. Niki Haley’s (above right) UN- presentation missed the mark, and no one other than the national security elite will even read the strategy, it won’t matter,” he lamented. “We’ve seen this before: a campaign built on the politicization of intelligence and shortsighted policy decisions to make the case for war. And the American people have apparently become so accustomed to executive branch warmongering — approved almost unanimously by the Congress — that such actions are not significantly contested.”

He implicated the news media, as well,noting that outlets recently “failed to refute false narratives”from the Trump administrationthat Iran worked with Al-Qaeda to undermine the U.S.

Nevertheless, Wilkerson wrote, “[t]oday, the analysts claiming close ties between Al Qaeda and Iran come from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,which vehemently opposes the Iran nuclear deal and unabashedly calls for regime change in Iran.” .

He went on to list the variety of ways the Trump administration is drumming up unfounded support for war against Iran:

We should include the 1) president’s decertification ultimatum in January that Congress must ‘fix’ the Iran nuclear deal, despite the reality of Iran’s compliance; 2 )theWhite House’s pressure on the intelligence community to cook up evidence of Iran’s noncompliance; and the 3) administration’s choosing to view the recent protests in Iran as the beginning of regime change. Like the Bush administration before, these seemingly disconnected events serve to create a narrative in which war with Iran is the only viable policy.

This war was announced already in 2001 by former NATO Commander- in-Chief in Europe, Wesley Clark, in 2001 – besides the wars on another 6 rogue states the US has/is attacked/ is attacking.

He warned: As I look back at our lock-step march toward war with Iraq, I realize that it didn’t seem to matter to us that we used shoddy or cherry-picked intelligence;that we might be hopelessly naïve in thinking that the war would lead to democracy instead of pushing the region into a downward spiral.

Confrontation between Israel and Syria?DEBKAfile 1.Febr. 2018: Contrary to Moscow’s promises, the Russian military is not pulling out of Syria, but adding four more air bases (one shared with Iran) and 6,000 more troops.
On Dec. 11, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, announced that the Russian military was to withdraw from Syria to home bases. DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that the reverse happened.

Russia´s bases very close to Israel – confronted by US bases to defend the US-established new Kurdistan.

Confrontation between US and Syria?Sputnik 6 Febr. 2018:Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that the United States should leave Syria’s Manbij in Aleppo province as Ankara plans to return it “to its true owners.” He also added that Washginton had “calculations against Turkey, Iran and maybe Russia” in Syria, claiming that the US military presence there was directed against the aforementioned countries after Daesh’s (ISIS) defeat

Confrontation between Israel and Lebanon?Haaretz 3 Febr. 2018: A delegation of Russian officials that arrived in Israel this week did so in an attempt to prevent a planned Israeli attack on Iranian missile factories in southern Lebanon and Syria, the Saudi daily ASharq Al-Awsat reported on Saturday.Netanyahu tells Putin: Iranian missile factories in Lebanon are already in progress, we won’t accept this threat.U.S. warns: Syria’s Assad developing new chemical weapons, we may take action.
Comment: We have heard this before: Ghouta – probably a false flag -where the UN declared the gas did not come from the Syrians. In April and Sept. 2017, there were another 2 gas attacks. Of course Syria was blamed – but that is dubious.

Israeli threats to strike Lebanon missile factory not intended to provoke war, but to distance!!

Russia Today 1 Febr. 2018 Tel Aviv is ready for an all-out ground invasion of Lebanon inthe event of a military conflict with Beirut, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said. His comments come as relations between the two neighbors continue to sour.

“We must prepare for maneuvering on the ground too, even if we do not use it,” the minister said at a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) held at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday.
Not mincing his words, Lieberman said that, in a worst-case scenario, Israel would conduct the operation at “full strength.” “We must not take one step forward and one step backward. We will move forward as fast as possible,” Lieberman added .

Israel will act tough on Lebanon, minister Leberman warned. “If in Israel they sit in shelters, then in the next fighting all of Beirut will be in shelters,” Lieberman added.The minister’s comments come amid Israel’s concerns over the Lebanese Hezbollah armed group, which allegedly plans to arm itself with locally-produced precision-guided missiles.

“The Hezbollah terror organization is violating the UN Security Council resolutions, maintaining a military presence in the region, possessing weapons systems and increasing its military capabilities,” Gabi Eisenkot, the head of the Israeli Defense Forces General Staff, said on Tuesday, as cited by Haaretz.

Lieberman also said that he sees no difference between Hezbollah and the rest of Lebanon, as he believes that the armed group has enough influence to control both political and military forces of Israel’s northern neighbor. “They are part of Hezbollahand they will all pay the full price”for any large-scale attack on Israel.

In late November, the Lebanese Army asked the military to be at “full readiness” to face “the Israeli enemy” on the southern border. At the same time, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said that “Israeli targeting still continues and it is the right of the Lebanese to resist it and foil its plans by all available means.”

The Guardin 28 Aug. 2017: At the start of a meeting in Jerusalem with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Netanyahu accused Iran of turning Syria into a “base of military entrenchment as part of its declared goal to eradicate Israel.”

“It is also building sites to produce precision-guided missiles towards that end, in both Syria and in Lebanon. This is something Israel cannot accept. This is something the U.N. should not accept,” Netanyahu said.

Confrontation between US and RussiaSo far these two countries have been good at making agreements on their warfare in Syria without clashing. Can that go on? Neoconservatives in the Us want the clash with Russia.
But I don´t think that will happen until London City allows them to.bsp;